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- An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a…
- Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the…
- When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question…
- Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own…
- Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
- Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
- I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that…
- One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that it will continue.…
- In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.
- Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
- By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
- As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.
- We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and…
- Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their…
- We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them…
- Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.
- I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
- Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people…
- Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on…
- I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what…
- We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not…
- Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate and profound path.…
- In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open,…
- Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation,…
- We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer